Spotify Cancels At Least 6 Live Audio Shows – Billboard

Spotify has canceled not less than six of its dwell audio reveals as a part of the audio big’s newest spherical of programming cuts.

Included within the cancelations are Deux Me After Dark, a celeb gossip present hosted by the nameless creator generally known as Deux Moi; Doughboys: Snack Pack, a meals present hosted by the comedians Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell; The Movie Buff, a film evaluation present hosted by the comic Jon Gabrus; A Gay within the Life, a present occasions and LGBTQ+ tradition present from Teen Beach Movie star Garrett Clayton and author Blake Knight; Taylor Talk, a Taylor Swift fan present hosted by Ellie Schnitt; and Lorem Life, a music present primarily based on Spotify’s Lorem playlist hosted by Dev Lemons and Max Motley.

The cancelations, two of which weren’t beforehand reported, had been confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter by a Spotify spokesperson.

At least two offers for the Spotify Live reveals had been canceled halfway by means of the creators’ contracts, in line with an individual accustomed to the matter. A second supply near the matter stated that every one the contracts are being paid out in full, regardless of the cancelations.

The audio big, which rebranded its dwell audio providing in April from Spotify Greenroom to Spotify Live, will proceed to launch dwell episodes from The Ringer MMA Show and The Fantasy Footballers, the latter of which struck a take care of Spotify earlier this yr that included an extension of the present’s partnership with Spotify Live by means of the subsequent three NFL seasons.

Other creators like Alex Cooper, whose Spotify Live present was promoted as a part of the corporate’s dwell audio rebrand, haven’t continued internet hosting dwell episodes since launching their reveals earlier this yr. Cooper’s second and most up-to-date dwell episode befell in April and was made out there for on-demand listening on April 28.

The programming modifications, first reported by Bloomberg, are the newest cuts from the audio big, which not too long ago canceled a complete of 11 reveals from in-house studios Gimlet and Parcast — 10 of which got here to an finish final month. The cuts have adopted an identical mannequin to cancelations in TV programming for broadcasters and streamers.

This article initially appeared in THR.com.